Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 16

REAL ESTATE. BUILDING PERMITS TOTAL $338,1% onstruction of 24 Dwellings Included in D. C. Opera- tions Past Week. ic ] | Plans for the construction of 24 | private dwellings were included in the Jist of new operations for which per- mits were issued during the past week by the District building inspector. The total cost of all new operations, ex- clusive of Federal projects, was esti- mated at $338.135. The largest project in the list is the $125,000 warehouse for the Peoples Drug Stores Co. at 61-75 P street. northeast. Permits were issued as follows: Peoples Drug Stores Co.. owners: Rust Engineering Co., designers and builders; to erect one 4-story concrete warehouse, 61 to 75 P street northeast dots I, C. 131, 122, 123, 124, 125, 143, 803, 131 and part of lot 132, square 6€69): to cost $125,000. Six Homes Listed at $36,000. W. G. Irvin, owner and builder: George 'T. Santmyers, architect; to erect six 2-story brick dwellings, 4300 to 4310 Thirty-seventh street (lots 38 to 43, square 1802); to cost $36.000. Robert E. Ellsworth, owner and builder; J. A. Melby, architect: to erect ,three 2-story brick dwellings, 4301, 4305 and 4309 Jennifer street (lots 2 to B, square 1661); to cost $22.500. Everett S. Beall, jr., owner, designer and builder: to erect two 2-story brick dwellings, 4101 and 4103 Thirty-eighth street. (lots 20 and 21, square 1898); to cost, $20,000. M. O. Bull, owner; Conrad M. Chaney, designer and builder: to erect one 1- story brick and concrete store (branch public library), 2206 Rhode Island ave- nue northeast (lots 27 and 28, square 14248): to cost $14.000. William C. & A. N. Miller, owners and builders; G. E. MacNeil, architect; to erect one 215-story frame dwelling, 4521 Garfleld street 1338): to cost $11.200. Two 2-Story Frame Dwellings. R. F. Philpitt, owner, designer and builder: to erect two 2-story frame dwellings, 2005 and 2009 South Dakota avenue northeast (lots 12 and square 4224); to cost $10,000. William C. & A. N. Miller, owners and builders; G. E. MacNeil, architect; o erect one 21>-story stone and frame dwelli=z, 4517 Garfield street (lot 53, square 1338): to cost $9,360. H. B. Hilton, owner, designer an builder dwellings, 3906 and 3908 Twenty-first street northeast (lots 36 and 37, square 4228): to cost $7,000. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, own- ers, designers and builders; to erect one 1-story brick lubricating store. 439 Rhode Island avenue northeast (parcel 131,102, square 3622), to cost $7,500. Permit for Brick Storage House. . Goldsmith & Keller, owners and “builders; William Harris, architect: to erect one 1-story brick storage building, 5425 Connecticut avenue (lot 36, square 1869). to_cost $7,000. J. M. Morris. owner and builder; L. Sholtes, architect; to erect one 2- fory frame dwelling, 5460 Thirty-first street (lot 11, square N-2293), to cost 7.000. A. M. Windsor, owner; S. E. Snyder, designer and builder; to erect ene 2- story brick dwelling, 1114 G street southeast (lot 802, square 994), to cost $6.000. Edgar Turlington, owner: Detlow M. ‘Marthinson, builder; to make repairs, 1523 Twenty-eighth street (lot 256, square 1266). to cost $5,000. C. C. Bolton, owner: to erect one 1- story brick private garage, 2301 Wy- oming avenue (lots 19 and 805, square 2522), to cost $5,000. J. M. King, owner and builder; J. A. Melby, architect; to erect one 2-story frame and concrete-block dwelling, 2400 Newton street northeast (lot 13, square 4293), to cost $5.000. J. M. King, owner and builder: J. A. Melby, architect; to erect one 2-story frame and concrete-block dwelling. 2516 Perry street northeast (lot 36, square 4294), to cost $5,000. $3,000 Frame Dwelling. John W. Schaefer, owner and build- er; to erect one 1-story frame dwelling, 115 Riggs road (lots 76 and 77, square 3701), to cost $3,000. T. W. Penn, owner; N. R. Grimm, arehitect; O. W. Murray, builder; to erect one 3-story brick addition and make repairs, 1300 Girard street and 2730 Thirteenth street (lot 68, square 2860), to cost $2.000. Miss Louise Maret, owner: Frank Simpson, builder: to erect uncovered porch and make repairs, 2118 Kalorama road (lot 48, square 2527), to cost d to erect one 1-stor dwelling, 552 Kastle place northeast (ot 14, square 5182), to t 50 Theus Smith, owner and builder; J. A. Melby, architect; to erect one 1- story tile and brick store addition. 2009 Grorgia avenue (lot 7, square 3078), to cost $2.300. Francis G. Jackson, owner and build- er; P. Dalton, designer: to erect one 1-story concrete-block stuceo, dwelling, 411 Thirty-fourth street north- east (lot 26, square 5017). to cost $2,000. Ri| National Bank, owne: C. ‘Wohlgemuth, jr., builder, to make ai terations, 1503 Pennsylvania avenue (lots 30 and 33, square 221), to cost W. F. Newton, owner; T. F. Collier, builder; to make repairs, 1511 Thirtieth treet (lot 805, square 1268), to cost . Merrill.owner; R. W. g, to make. alterations, 3111 iHawthorne street (lot 87, square 2117), to cost $1,500. Standard 0il Co. Prnpou.l.& ndard Oil Co. of New Jersey, ow esigners and builders; to erect 1{ platform, South Capitol and R (lot 804, square 708), to cost frame | elle Matera, owner; W. B. Avery. r: to make repairs, 204 Four and alf street southwest (lot E, square to cost $1,000. . Jameson, owner and builder; to 16 metal garages, 412 to 442 Jef- street (lots 37 to 52, square 325 to cost $1,500. '—__,h==—.-‘___-——— {r CHARMING H OLD EORGETOWN 1425 34th St. N.W. _The mellowness and beauty of the pure Colonial combined with every up-to-date feature of the modern home. Six de- lightful spacious room tied baths, electric refrigera- tipn. Smartly and exquisitely décorated, but retaining the true Colonial atmosphere, with old deors, locks, chair rails, etc. or the price in value and individuality than anywhere in Washington. You are invited to inspect this most unusual offering Sun- day from 12 to 6 P.M. Inspect during week by appointment. L. E. F. Price - Investment Bldg. ‘National 6981 or West 82 (lot 54, square | 13, to ercct two 2-story frame | t English type, center-hall plan house on the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Van Buren streets, which has been purchased by Mr. Acker. The transac- tion was handled through the office of McKeever & Goss. It contains five bed- rooms and three baths in addition to living room, dining room, conservatory, library and kitchen and servants’ quarters. FRONT PORCH IS PASSING FROM HOUSES IN AMERICA 01d-Fashioned Carpet Also Is Going, Says Survey, Showing Bungalows Still Are Popular. The front porch is passing, the old- architceture are being put up now than fashioned carpet is s2en no more, ceil- for a century past. ing heights vary in different parts of | he front porch, a more or less dis- the country, bungalows are still popu- | tinctive American institution, is rapidly lar, American architecture is improv- | going out of style. Fewer and fewer ing., and dining rooms remain firmly | people care to watch endless streams of intrenched in the average American | passing motor cars and the rear of the | home, according to James S. Taylor, | house is coming more and more into its acting chief of the division of building | ow { and housing of the United States De- | partment of Commerce. The National Assoclation of Real Estate Boards in its weekly article on subjects of interest to home owners quotes MY. Taylor on modern trends in home building. His observations are based on a survey just made by the housing division in 38 typical American cities. Most of the homes examined were of the five or six room type. t is only during the last few years { that the designer has had to consider the fact that practically every owner will want a place on his lot to house one or more motor cars. The built-in garage has worked its way down from | the more expensive houses into the | medium priced field. “Some prophets foretold the passing of the dining room in the small house, arguing that, being used only two or ‘The value of the radio in toning up | three times a day, it was the most ex- the atmosphere of American homes | pensive space in' the house. A good cannot be overestimated. especially in | preakfast nook and well planned ar- the life of a family having young peo- | rangements for serving meals at onc ON REALTY ROW Reports and Observations Concerning Business and D. C. Agents. Fryhofer Tells of Florida. Some interesting comments on con- ditions prevailing in Florida during the late and lamented boom in that State | are given by George Fryhofer of the Bradley Hills Syndicate in an_article in the United States Bahker. Mr. Fry- hofer qualifies,as an expert witness on booms by recounting that he has e: perienced four different booms in sub- I urban developments in Long Island and | two_in Florida, not to mention others in different parts of the country. That Famous Sand Lot. Speaking of the latest deflation, Mr. imhulfl‘ writes: “In West Palm Beach I had an or- dinary sand lot listed with me during the height of the activity at the price of $80,000. A few years previously I-had worked hard to sell that lot for seven or eight huhdred dollars. When I asked the owner why he had put that price on his lot, he replied that the party owning the adjoining lot had a little higher price on his property. At least, s0 he was told by the agent. “I often told an owner like that that he was up to the depot that morning and saw a box car with a number 80,000 on it and that was the only basis I could see for the value that he placed on his lot. Advice Not Wanted. “But such advice, of course, was re- sented and had to be given out very sparingly. There is no one so unpop- ular, when the boom is on, as the man says, ‘I cannot see these values.’ “I think the insanity of the situation is brought on by the great flock of people who become active in buying real estate and selling when a move- ment is started. Plumbers, barbers, stenographers and bookkeepers become real estate agents, They ‘have never had the slightest experience in real estate before. The situation is so hec- tie, and, with strangers coming in, they at once are considered judges of value, express themselves freely and authori- tativelv. They begin quoting high prices |and shove values up. The buyers get | the fever and the boom is on,” * ok % % Bowle from Norman C. rs and ns seven main rooms, two baths, col lot is 60 by 190 feet. Roge: ansbury Co. This is the first steel-frame heuse built in Washington. Residence at 3302 Rittenhouse street, Chevy Chase, D. C., purchased by Mr. Edwin R. Carr through the office of the attic and two-car built-in garage. The IEONE DEESON SEEN AS BENEFT |Method of Deducting Commis- | sions in Lease Transactions Aids Property Owners. Decision of the United States Board | of Tax Appeals, reversing its former ruling in regard to the method of deduction from income of commissions paid in the negotiation of leases, is a Training Held Tmportant. At the recent annual convention of the National Association of Real Es-| tate Boards in Boston the thought was | stressed that, due to the complicated land vital nature .of real estate busi- | ness, there is of necessity a definite | | moral responsibility on the real estate | broker or agent that he be well trained and well posted on conditions before | accepting commissions. Not only that. | but stress was laid on the fact that real | estate business itself is divided into a number of highly specialized fields, all requiring special technical training. { * ok ok % License Laws are Adopted. | _To safeguard the public and the good | name of real estate business generally. | the national assoclation is sponsoring | enactment in each jurisdiction of a real ple. says Mr. Taylor. The radio is keep- ing people at home and is giving parents a chance to become acquainted with the friends of their children. Rear Sun Parlor Is Common. ‘The built-in garage has descended from the very expensive house to be found in the medium-priced field; and on streets where there is any consid- erable amount of automobile traffic families are living more and more in the back of their houses. A sun parlor at the rear of the house is fairly com- mon, he says, and the rear living room is no longer a curiosity. ‘The bathroom has become a con- spicuous feature in many of the new small homes, says Mr. Taylor. He cites a small row house selling for less than $6,000, that looked fit for a mil- lionaire screen star. It had a floor of black and white tile, buff colored wain- scoting, special wallpaper depicting sea scenes and a built-in bath tub in an alcove. In industrial housing projects, like those in Southern mill towns, consid- | erable numbers of houses are erected | without all the modern features: but an increasing proportion of such houses | in North Carolina have running water | and electricity. | “In some rapidly growing communi- ties, such as Oklahoma City and Flint, we found that more lower-priced house: are being built than in most of the other cities, probably because there is not so great a supply of second-hand houses to meet the needs of families in low-income groups. “The number of are distinctly faulty seems to have diminished considerably during the past six years. One-Story Houses Popular. “The lower-priced houses now being | built in quantity in the larger cities to- re of tive and six rooms, with one- nating for the five-room, aud two-story for the six-room size. “The six-room, story house is favored more in Eastern cities, whereas in ‘cities of the Middle and Far West the five-room bungalow is in the lead in the lowest-priced groups. In_the latter citi however, the two-story house usually has six rooms. “‘American domestic architecture is on the mend. The more expensive houses are usually designed by architects who specialize in that kind of work and are acknowledged to be the best in the world. More operative builders appre- clate the importance of good architec- tural service and employ architects on their staff or as consultants. “The Architects’ Small House Service Bureau, an offshoot of the American Institute of Architects, has done a great deal to set higher standards in the small house field. Its work, together -with that of material manufacturers and some of the commercial plan services, has interested more architects in the de- sign of small houses, a specialty in itself. ‘This has all been encouraged by the wider publication and use of stock plans. Building trade papers and home building periodicals, which have had a striking increase i circulation during the past few years, and the home byilding pages of newspapers, have done ‘much to en- cultivate public taste. Hit the N onthe It’s getting up courage as cheap as lumber but by the ti probably lumber will rise. So Galliher & | | | | end of an enlarged living room, so they | estate license law, placing definite re- said, would suffice, but there is no proof | quirements on real estate brokers and distinct gain for property owners and | for real estate everywhere, the Nation: Association of Real Estate Boards de- clares. |, The decision was handed down in the case of Robert H.yMcNeill vs. Com- missioner of Internal Revenue, docket 17261, reported in 16 B. T. A. 479. The decision is held to be of im- portance to all owners of real property who have executed leases of more than one-year duration within the last three years or who are now comtemplating entering intp such leases. ticular importance to the maker of & | long-term lease. ‘The board in the new ruling permits comthissions paid by the lessor for ob- taining a lease on property owned by him to be deducted from income in the | | year in which incurred or paid. The | poard, however, reaffirms its former Tulings that commissions paid by & lessee for obtaining & lease may not be so deducted, but must be spread over It is of par-| | leum common in the kitchen. yet that they were right. In our survey we found many all houses where a brcakfast nook was added but almost none where the dining room was omitted. “Ceiling heights are usually greater |in the South than in the North, pre- | sumably because they are more com- fortable in warmer climates and on ac- count of custom. “The radio is doing its part to keep people at home and may have some connection with the fairly frequent pro- vision of sun parlors and sun porches, which can be used as a second down- stairs living room. What such an addi- tion can mean in the life of a family containing young people is hard to over- estimate. It can tone up the entire at- mosphere of the home, develop individ- uality in children and determine whether or not the parents will have the opportunity to know their children’s friends. “Types of floor covering have been in evolution ever since the passing of the old fashioned carpet. Hardwood floors downstairs and a good grade of matched flooring upstairs are usual, with lino- These types help to make dusting easy. “The popularity of bungalows in the lowest priced class of detached dwell- ings seems to continue in spite of the arguments of those who maintain that a family gets more for its money in a two-story house than in a single story dwelling. |ARCHITECTS IN FRANCE TAUGHT TO SHUN DETAIL the life of the lease. ‘The new position taken by the Board of Tax Appeals. upon the acquiescence | of the Commissioner of Internal Rev- | salesmen, which must be met before | they are allowed to operate. Twenty-five | | States now have similar laws. A num- | ber have been revised at the request of ning of one of the principal points in the program for more equitable income tax regulations which has been brought | before Congress over a period of years by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the association states. Towa Realtors 0. K. Tax Studies. The Towa Association of Real Estate | Boards is the latest addition to the group of State real estate organiza- tions now working out a plan whereby | property owners can poin with realtors |in tax studies and campaigns and can work fogether in city planning and zoning projects and various other civic and economic activities. ments more stringent. ! 'The Washington Real Estate Board has asked that Congress adopt a license law for the District, fashioned after the | national model code. *x x K ¥ Realtor Election Coming. With Fall fast approaching, local| | realtors already are planning for the Winter season of activities of the local real estate board. The first big event will be the annual meeting. set for October 14, when officers of the board | will be elected for the coming year. *xox % McKeever and Brown on Trip. | | realtors to make educational require- | enue, will mean for real estate the win- | | Reever & Gross, Inc., and William J. | Brown. president of the Black & White |and Yellow Cab Companies left this | week for a motor tour through New | England and Canada. * ¥ ¥ X Seaford Visits Gotham. H. Wade Seaford, of the real estate firm of Seaford & Seaford, spent the R. L. McKeever, president of Mec- | — . Dealing With Early Building: Among the many problems facing architects, none is more worthy of care- | tul thought than how to deal with our early bulldings—how to preserve them not only from demolition, but also from misleading restoration, says the Archi- | tectural Record. past week in New York City and will | return’ after Labor day. * % ¥ ¥ James Addresses Convention. C. Clinton James of Washington, Hoge Opens D. C. Office. chajrman of the Federal legislative W. 8. Hoge, jr. Virginia realtor, has committee of the United State League | established an office in the Investment of Local Building and Loan Associations, | Building, where he plans to conduct a of which he is a past president, gave a | general real estate business, with special | vention of the league, yesterday at Salt Lake City. * ok ox % ‘which closed | story construction apparently predomi- | courage Interest in good design and to! Photographs of Work Give Ameri- | can Students False Tmpression, | Says Educator. Architectural students in America usually see only photographic reproduc- tions of the work done in the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, and these give them a false impression of architectural studies abroad, says Prof. Jean Labatut of the architectural department of Princeton University. “Photographs reduce these drawings and make them appear much more pre- cise and detailed than they are,” says Prof. Labatut. “The French student is taught to shun detail which can be worked out at the moment of execution of the project, and to seek to express his con- ception on a large scale and in general terms. Unless heé can do this he risks losing himself in minor and unimpor- tant things, burying his individuality and never contributing to the progress of architecture in our time. “The architect must be the captain of hls construction and not its second lieutenant. He must be lepder, not in title alone, but by the Breadth and power of his vision and personality.” Mrs. Dwight Davis Leases Home. Mrs. Dwight Davis, wife of the Gov- ernor of the Philippine Islands, has leased as her Washington residence the house at 1735 Massachusetts avenue. The place formerly was occupied by “Probably more small houses of good Mrs. Ch yl to drive the first nail that’s the hard part about building. You can trump up dozens of reasons for postponing the job—but did you ever know anybody to be sorty he built? Most building materials are low priced now. Not every thing is me the other things have dropped all in all this is a good time for building. - Hit the nail on the headl Huguely, Inc. -Sherman Ave, and W St. N.W. North 0486 resume of recent legislation affecting bullding loan work, at the annual | attention to Virginia acreage and burban developments. | THE IDEAL SUMMER find the most beautiful homes finest shade, the best beach a: BEAUTIFUL S| Are offered as low as $750 o ance $15.00 monthly. Select yo ready for next season. A BEAUTIFUL N bath, having a good view of the 1400 H St. NW.. Where you have the families of the hest professional and | business men of Washington as your neighbors; where you Bay Ridge and see the best in summer home communities. ; With living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms and ed you at only $5,000, on easy terms. Call at our office on the grounds and our representative will leaving Washington at 9:00 a. m., 1:00 p. m. and 5:00 p. m. Bay Ridge Realty Corporation, Owner WM. H. LANHAM, Washington Representative. | SPEND LABOR DAY BAY RIDG HOME COMMUNITY on Chesapeake Bay; also the nd bathing. You should visit HADED LOTS n terms of $150 cash, and bal- | ur lot now and have your home | EW BUNGALOW bay; lot 50 by 200 feet is offer- DRIVE DOWN SUNDAY OR LABOR DAY be glad to show you over this splendid property. W.B. & A. M run direct from Washington t, OTOR BUSSES o Bay Ridge withopt change, . COMPLETE SERVICE 1S LATEST MOTIF Buildings Must Contain Every Adequate Facility, Says Chicagoan. “Major improvements in the future | are going to be larger and larger and taller and taller,” says J. Soule Water: field of Chicago. “But in not many years no major improvement will be profitable tI has not been m 50 as to take care of traffic and garage problem: “The adequate bullding of the years now coming will have to provide com- plete service within the improvement itself, taking into consideration the so. |cial and recreational as well as busi- | ness requirements of the tenants and their clients,” he declared recently in an address at the annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. In the great cities and even in cities of the 50,000-population class the task | of putting up an adequate improvement | on”downtown real estate is so huge an | andertaking that the majority of major | improvements must be promoted, fi- nanced and built largely by syndicated building corporations rather than by individual owners, Mr. Waterfield held. “In the past 35 s only 17 sky- scrapers in the Chicago Loop have been built by estates and private individuals, { which is an average of less than one every two years. In this same time and territory only 11 have been built by | banks, 10 by clubs and 14, other than department and retail stores, by co porations for their own or partially their own occupancy. “In New York City and other metro- politan centers these comparisons are even more startlingly true. Unim- |proved and inadequately improved | properties in a great majority of cast are owned by private individuals or by | estates. The average private indivi ual, even if he has the cash or bo rowing power, hesitates to put all his eggs in one basket for an improvement of such magnitude as present conditions make necessary.” Murphy at New Post. Paul J. Murphy, for the last six years | affiliated with the District, Lawyers and Washington Title Insura has joined the legal department of the Capital Title & Guarantee Co. A SPECIALIZED SERVICE Bustness .7)/(;00./}/ Leasing | CARZGROSINS REALTOR W ‘I %{:{unn{f/}mfi/f 3 Dhational 9254 Best New Home Values in Town! 4427 3rd St. N.\W. ATTRACTIVE FEATURE; Colonial 6-Room Brick Homes, 20 Ft. Wide by 32 Ft. Deep Covered Concrete Front Porch 2 Screened Rear Porch Reception Hall, Coat Closet With Plate Glass Mirror Door Beautiful Living Room Daylight Kitchen Fully Equipped Large, Bright Dining Room Spacious Master Bedroom 2 Other Large Bedrooms Black and White Tiled Bath Built-in Tub and Shower Conecrete Cellar With Toilet And Laundry Trays Awtomatic Hot-Water Heater Gabled Roof Garage Screens Throughout Frigidaire 9,250 P Y 8-ROOM HOMES AT $9,950 CAFRITZ 14th & K District 9080 POVPPOPPOO S P ¥ Companies, ; | LAWS ARE COSTLY keting of Negotiable Paper, Counsel Says. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, August 31. — Diverse [mortgage laws that delay the rapid| | marketing of mortgages in interstate | transactions cost large investors mil- | {llons of dollars a year, according to| Gen. F M.. Bass of Nashville, Tenn., counsel of the Mortgage Bankers' Asso- clation of America, who will urge ad- | | vantages of uniform law before the | coming convention of the association | {in_ New Orleans, October 29 to 31. | Wwith mortgage laws different in every State in the Union, from the | tactual wording of the documents to | the methods of foreclosure, organiza- | tions such as large insurance companies | that buys mortgages amounting to a | million dollars a dav must maintain legal stafls to examine the papers in | each transaction and sce that they | check with the laws in the State from | whtl‘ch they emanate, Gen. Bass points ouf . | Work Is Tremendous. With probably 250 insurance com- | panies buying mortgages in block lots in 48 States every day in the year, not counting other large investors that | purchase mortgage paper daily, the | work of complying with the provisions of 48 State laws has assumed tremen- | duous proportions, says the association | attorney. — Insurance companies alone now hold over $6,000,000,000 in mort- gages. In other words, a mortgage in Ari- zona is made and handled under entirely different ecircumstances than | a mortgage in New York, and the two when brought together would hardiy recognize themselves as cousins, he declares, | ‘The work done by large mortgage | buyers in preparing, copying. examin- ing and transferring alone is figured at an estimated $5,000.000 a year which could be saved to purchasers if a uni- form law existed and if shorter “And less cumbersome forms were adopted : in the various States,” says Gen. Ba “In the matter of foreclosure clauses alone the State laws provide for re- demptions in case of default at from a few days to several years. “These items may seem small in the case of one mortgage, but. multi- rplled hundreds of thousands of times, are running into the salaries of at- | torneys, accountants and clerks that might be saved to a large extent through greater uniformity. “The present situation stems the easy |flow of money between States which is necessary if mortgages are to com- pete with other readily negotiable securities. We know the present variations in the mortgage laws are costing large investors millions of dol- lars & Year: but we have no record of what this situation is costing the mort- l:'gg' banker in business he does not +| ‘The bankers’ convention will discuss a uniform mortgage law which has already been drafted by the American Bar Association and will consider whether this or any other uniform draft is feasible for adoption by the various States. SR Druggists Renew Lease. MecGarry & Tait, druggists, have re- | newed for 10 years their lease on the business property at the northwest cor- ner of Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street, it is announced by Hubert New- som. ‘The lease for the new term amounts to approximately $10.000 it is stated. Pete Cokinos is the owner, | | —which 1429 Van means EXCEED $28,800,000 87 Per Cent of July Total Is for Industrial Building Programs. Special Dispatch to The Star. iDiversity Delays Rapid Mar-| BALTIMORE, Avgust 31.—Appro- mately $28,827,000 in building and engineering contract was awarded in Baltimore in July, according to a re- port issued this week by the building engincer's office. This was the highest monthly total on record here and was twice as great es the total for June, 1929. and over three times as great as that for Julv, 1928. Analysis of the Baltimore eonstruc- tion record showed the following im- portant classes of work: $25.029,000, or 87 per cent of the total, was for industrial buildings: $2.980,000. or 10 per cent. * for residential buildings: $380.000, or 1 per cent, for commercial buildings: $176.700. or 1 per cent, for public works and utilities. ‘The July total brought the amount of building and engineering work started in Baltimore during the first seven months of this year to $68.218.- 1700, as compared with $39.762.000 for the corresponding period of 1928, an increase of 72 per cent. PLAN I\_IIEMORIAL CONTEST. Architects to Compete for Design of George Rogers Clark Monument. A Nation-wide competition for the design of a George Rogers Clark me- morial, open to all American archi- tects and subject to the conditions of the American Institute of Architects. is announced by the Sesquicentenniai Commission, established by resolution of Congress to take charge of the mon- umsnt’s erection. Commemorating the winning of the 'old Northwest and the achievements of Clark and his associates in the Ameri- can Revolution, the memorial will stand at or near the site of Fort Sackville, at Vincennes, Ind. Adjoining Eastern High Best All-White Development in Entire Northeast Exhibit Home 216 17th PL. N Attractive room homes: w six and seven h tiled bath and shower: heautifully finished throughout, with paneled walls, hardwood floors, numerous closets and every up-to-the-minute fea- ture: an all-white kitchen, the 10usewife’s dream : built-in garage. Reautiful fawns., hordered by ar- tistic stone_wall, everlooking new Anacostia Parkway. Houses Selling Before Completed Built by R. E. Kline, Jr. Only $7,950.00 Terms Within Any One's Reach R. W. Savage, Agent 717 "Union Trust Bldg. 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